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Married For The Sheikh's Duty
Tara Pammi
The playboy Sheikh’s last temptation…Thanks to a recent scandalous expose, the damage to Sheikh Zayn Al-Ghamdi’s reputation is threatening his family’s future.So when fiercely independent Amalia Christensen has the gall to blackmail him with further ruination to ensure her innocent brother’s freedom, Zayn choses to keep his enemies close… and make Amalia his temporary fiancée!Zayn’s only duty is to his country. He can’t allow himself any emotional ties. But the hunger Amalia unleashes in him, soon tempts the playboy Sheikh to take their relationship from business to the bedroom…Book 3 of the Brides for Billionaires Quartet
The playboy sheikh’s last temptation...
Thanks to a recent scandalous exposé, the damage to Sheikh Zayn Al-Ghamdi’s reputation is threatening his family’s future.
So when fiercely independent Amalia Christensen has the gall to blackmail him with further ruination to ensure her innocent brother’s freedom, Zayn chooses to keep his enemies close...and make Amalia his temporary fiancée!
Zayn’s only duty is to his country. He can’t allow himself any emotional ties. But the hunger Amalia unleashes in him soon tempts the playboy sheikh to take their relationship from business to the bedroom...
“I’m going to kiss you, Amalia. This is your moment to go all outraged on me and call me a savage beast.”
If possible, she stiffened even more in Zayn’s hold.
“I...refuse to provide you with any more entertainment. I was right in thinking that you would be just as bloated and corrupted with power as—”
Whatever outrage Amalia had amassed to fight the man’s autocratic ideas and her own out-of-control senses, all of it disappeared as Zayn’s mouth touched hers.
The scent and taste of him were an overwhelming assault on her senses. He tasted of mint and some dark potency that stirred everything in her to waking. Heat poured through her in rivulets as he pressed one tender kiss after the other, from one corner of her mouth to the other. The softness of his mouth was a delicious contrast to the rough scrape of his jaw, tugging Amalia’s senses this way and that.
If he had kissed her with the aggressiveness she sensed within him, or if he had employed that sensual mastery that had made him a favorite lover of women, maybe she would’ve resisted.
But instead there was soft flick of his tongue against the seam of her lips, kisses punctuated by the sweetest endearments in Arabic, made Amalia melt like an ice cube on a hot and sultry Khaleej summer day. He tasted her as if he was dying to probe all her beguiling secrets…he kissed her as if she were a treasure he had just discovered.
Brides for Billionaires (#u9495182e-6a72-53c8-b498-4a8e177458ce)
Meet the world’s ultimate unattainable men...
Four titans of industry and power—Benjamin Carter, Dante Mancini, Zayn Al-Ghamdi and Xander Trakas—are in complete control of every aspect of their exclusive world...Until one catastrophic newspaper article forces them to take drastic action!
Now these gorgeous billionaires need one thing: a willing women on their arm and wearing their ring! A women falling at their feet is normal, but these bachelors need the right women to stand by their side. And for that they need the billionaire Matchmaker Elizabeth Young.
This is the opportunity of a lifetime for Elizabeth, so she won’t turn down the challenge of finding just the right match for these formidable tycoons. But Elizabeth has a secret that could complicate things for one of the bachelors...
Find out what happens in:
Married for the Tycoon’s Empire by Abby Green
Married for the Italian’s Heir by Rachael Thomas
Married for the Sheikh’s Duty by Tara Pammi
Married for the Greek’s Convenience by Michelle Smart
Married for the Sheikh’s Duty
Tara Pammi
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
TARA PAMMI can’t remember a moment when she wasn’t lost in a book—especially a romance, which was much more exciting than a mathematics textbook at school. Years later, Tara’s wild imagination and love for the written word revealed what she really wanted to do. Now she pairs alpha males who think they know everything with strong women who knock that theory and them off their feet!
Books by Tara Pammi
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
The Sheikh’s Pregnant Prisoner
The Man to Be Reckoned With
A Deal with Demakis
The Legendary Conti Brothers
The Unwanted Conti Bride
The Surprise Conti Child
Greek Tycoons Tamed
Claimed for His Duty
Bought for Her Innocence
Society Weddings
The Sicilian’s Surprise Wife
A Dynasty of Sand and Scandal
The Last Prince of Dahaar
The True King of Dahaar
The Sensational Stanton Sisters
A Hint of Scandal
A Touch of Temptation
Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk/) for more titles.
Contents
Cover (#u9f72525a-720f-5190-886e-c60c8829cd5f)
Back Cover Text (#ud9d9f7c1-7270-5125-ada8-48c4120a0d3f)
Introduction (#u9260444f-5be9-5085-a5c9-db0448227780)
Brides for Billionaires (#u741acc89-4762-598b-a1ed-41299482074c)
Title Page (#u020e2810-1cc6-519a-9723-bceed1704073)
About the Author (#uf1e3e2f0-cd00-51a5-ae43-2492eacc2751)
CHAPTER ONE (#ue81df09f-e4a1-5c92-aafd-8d83c161decc)
CHAPTER TWO (#u81e4481b-dc90-5bf1-8320-ef9b3012f0f4)
CHAPTER THREE (#u764a2223-0e1e-5466-bfbc-a7f827657333)
CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
Extract (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ONE (#u9495182e-6a72-53c8-b498-4a8e177458ce)
“WHAT ARE YOUR requirements in a bride, Sheikh Al-Ghamdi?”
Sheikh Zayn Al-Ghamdi stared unseeing at the flat-screen monitor that was attached to the wall in his office. Words came to his lips and fell away.
He had known for a while now that this final step of settling down and marrying was coming at him. It had been drilled into him since childhood that he would one day marry a woman who would serve him well as a wife and his country as sheikha.
Of course she would be mostly an image that would be carefully cultivated and supervised to please the people of his country. He had also been taught, by example of his own parents, that her role even in his life would be very minor. Having his children and continuing the legacy of the Al-Ghamdi family was going to be her primary duty.
Last week when Benjamin had invited him and two other men to confab, following the exposé in Celebrity Spy!, he had been the one to suggest that all his problems would be solved if he married and started producing heirs.
All three men, his rivals for years, turned reluctant allies—Benjamin Carter, Dante Mancini and Xander Trakas—had looked at him as if he’d grown two horns and a tail. Until they had seen the sense in his idea after their initial grumbling and posturing.
But faced with the question asked by Ms. Young, the billionaire matchmaker recommended by Xander, he found himself bewildered.
In the little slice of his life that he was actually the master of, Zayn resented being brought to heel like a dog by some bottom-feeding, trashy tabloid.
But thanks to the dirty exposé on the four of them, his image was utterly besmirched. His parents, even though retired from public life, still had lectured him over his image, the effect of every small minutia of his life over the political climate of Khaleej. Even worse, his sister Mirah’s fiancé’s family was talking about canceling the match.
Conservative to the core, they didn’t believe he had a right to any kind of life, much less the kind of reckless debauchery the article hinted at. But that was not acceptable.
Ten years younger than he was, his sister had been a ray of sunshine in an otherwise solitary life. From their parents’ aloof, almost cold, upbringing, to the rigors of preparing for a political life, if not for Mirah, Zayn would have known no true joy. No companionship at all.
“Sheikh Al-Ghamdi?”
“My bride needs to be attractive and young. Attractive enough for me to be able to look at her for the next five decades. And healthy enough to have children. Someone not approaching or close to thirty.”
Ms. Young made scrupulous notes but Zayn saw the vertical frown between her brows. “Is there a problem, Ms. Young?”
Her gaze couldn’t quite hide her judgment. “Women are known to have children even at the advanced age of thirty, Your Highness.”
“Yes, but women reaching thirty have stubbornly decided ideas, Ms. Young. They will not be malleable. I might not meet their expectations of an ideal man, either.”
The woman didn’t quite snort but Zayn had a feeling she wanted to. “A woman ambitious about her career will not do. She’ll have to understand that her role in life is to complement me.”
“So beautiful but not really smart.”
“Yes. She will have to come to me as a virgin.”
Outrage flared in Ms. Young’s expressive eyes. “That’s barbaric.”
“That’s the only way I can ensure there’s no future scandal or shame attached to her name.”
“Virginity need not be required. We check their backgrounds very thoroughly before we make matches based on your requirements.”
“Ex-boyfriends and old lovers have a way of showing up in one’s life to make the most trouble. I would like to avoid any future scandals concerning my Sheikha and her past. This ensures it.”
“Beautiful, young, malleable, not particularly smart and a virgin. I don’t know whether to say this is the easiest or the hardest match I’ve ever made, Your Highness.”
“Are you saying you cannot find me a woman to match those requirements, Ms. Young?”
“Of course I can, Your Highness. But I just wondered if love was going to be a part of the equation.”
“You run a matchmaking business for billionaires, Ms. Young. Has love ever been part of it?”
“I was curious about your opinion.”
“Some foolish, fantastic notion will not make my marriage a success. I require a wife who will yield to my superior judgment in all areas of our life and be an asset to my political life.”
“A kind of accessory?”
